Talk:1947 flying disc craze/Archive 1

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Archive 1

Notes/Todo

Handbook of UFO Religions source on 1947 scholarship
Flying Saucers in the Sky: 1947: when UFOs Came from Mars, potential resource
Folklore, not ufology. Always lists events in order of public reports, not supposed date of event.
Data visualization
- Table
  - https://wikitable2csv.ggor.de/
Wikisource to Excel:
- Copy text of table
- Convert table row-breaks to newline with search/replace regex ^\|-[\s]*\n
- Convert doublepipes to tabs with search/replace extended || to \t
- Load in excel
- Edit / Sort
- Format dates to mmm d
- Copy (not save) and paste inton notebook++
- Covert newlines to pipedash with search/replace regex ^\|\s* to |-\n|
- Convert tabs to doublepipes,extended search/replace \t to ||

- Map
  - https://geocode.localfocus.nl/
  - Recolor
- GIF
- Interactive from Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Title brainstorm

1947 UFO wave
- Good: Common in 21st century literature
- Bad: Unforgivably anachronistic ('UFO' term dates to the 1950s, never used in '47)
- Bad: FRINGE (When historians use the term "Wave", it means "wave of reports" but readers will infer it to mean "wave of discs", implying the discs existed)
Flying disc craze of 1947 or 1947 flying disc craze
- Good: historicity emphasize on behavior -- unambiguous that there was a craze in 47
- Good: Explicitly anti-FRINGE: ("craze", not "wave")
- Bad: Less common than the fringe-promoting titles
Other:
- "Craze" and "Flap" were the 1940s terms, but "flap" in that sense is largely deprecated by 2022.
- "Mass hysteria" and "mania" were also used, but those terms are long-deprecated in their technical sense. "Mania" the social phenom ala Beatlemania might be salvageable.

Feoffer (talk) 19:43, 2 June 2022 (UTC)